The research is comprised of empirical findings in making a clear perceptive of the sagacity of investors, stock returns, and stock market efficiency behavior in the theoretical frame of behavioral finance pattern. The analyses employed a long extent of Pakistan stock market Returns data from...

People seem to carry a behavioral bias in investing in the stock market. This is usually depicted in people's investment behavior that coincides with market behavior in different up and down. These can be called psychological barriers' that are certain index levels (usually in multiples of 100)...

People tend to be more aware of environmental and social issues, and thus tend to have a soft corner for firms that include such issues as part of their corporate strategy. This has led to heightened demand for financial mechanisms that enhance responsible business practice. Shareholders, being...

The study examined the dynamic relationship between Automobile Stock Returns of Pakistan and stock prices of the Automobiles sector, SPI (Sensitive Price Indicator), Interest Rate, Exchange Rate using Vector Autoregression (VAR) econometric model. The results based on weekly data from January...

Prior evidence suggests that the presence of women on director boards increases the quantity and quality of public disclosure by firms. To explore this on Pakistan, we examined gender diversity in the corporate board and its relationship with information asymmetry in the stock market of...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the share price volatility in Pakistan and their dividend policies which affect the share price. We use dividend yield and dividend payout as proxies of dividend policy, and regress these ratios together with other control...

This paper investigates the moderating impact of FDI & FPI in the association of macro-economic variables along with Oil prices & Index returns. Monthly data has been used from the period 2005 to 2018. Efficient unit root & break point unit root tests results indicate that all variables are...

Pakistan stock exchange is one of the growing financial markets consisting Shariah compliant firms and Non-Shariah compliant firms. Shariah compliant stock has limited level of debt as compared to non-compliant stocks. Comparing both stocks can give a clear idea that how these differ in terms of...

Stock markets play a significant role for investors and financial institutions and help them to in order to mobilize their finances and provide platform to buy and sell their stock. In any country stock market has a significant effect on the economy as it regulates money and debts. This helps in...

In this study, we explore how investors reconcile information on firms’ social responsibility with analysts’ assessments of future firm risk in share pricing. We ask whether investors pay attention to small strides toward and/or small slips away from socially responsible behavior, arguing...